Before You Set New Goals, Decide What to Let Go Of

So let's turn back the dial back to the year 2000.

That's when I started right here at Keller Williams on September 2nd, the day after Labor Day.

And it's crazy to think about all the changes that have happened since then.

When I joined Keller Williams, there were just 27 employees.

We were in a small building off Bee Cave Road.

And at that time, there were only about 6,700 agents.

And I think we were only in 14 states and one part of Canada.

So it was a really small company that most people hadn't even heard of.

But over the years, I got to experience all the changes that came both in the world and right here in this company.

So think about the year 2000, if you're old enough to remember.

There were no smartphones.

Social media wasn't a thing unless you were on MySpace.

We didn't have video calls.

I think Skype hadn't even happened yet.

And there was no streaming media.

We still got our DVDs by mail from Netflix.

It was a completely different world at work and at home.

If you wanted to navigate, we have lots of real estate agents here, you probably remember this.

You'd go to MapQuest, you'd plot out your course, and then you'd print the pages and set them in the passenger seat.

That's how we got around.

There was no general use of GPS.

The world was very different, and so was this company.

So over the years, I probably had about five careers.

I was mostly working on the book side.

We wrote 11 or 12 books, a lot of them bestsellers.